photomontage

American  

[foh-tuh-mon-tahzh] / ˌfoʊ tə mɒnˈtɑʒ /

noun

Photography.

1. a combination of several photographs joined together for artistic effect or to show more of the subject than can be shown in a single photograph.

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photomontage British  

/ ˌfəʊtəʊmɒnˈtɑːʒ /

noun

1. the technique of producing a composite picture by combining several photographs: used esp in advertising

2. the composite picture so produced

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Etymology

Origin of photomontage

First recorded in 1930–35; photo- + montage

Example Sentences

For example, in the 1930s, we saw this put to effective use in the subversive anti-Nazi photomontage posters of the German resistance artist John Heartfield.

From Salon • Oct. 17, 2024

The exhibition “Living in Two Times” opens with a striking photomontage: A century-old black-and-white portrait of an Iranian woman conjures the past; overlaying it, a close-up of a bright, red-and-orange flower represents the present.

From Washington Post • Aug. 24, 2022

A photomontage dated 1962 shows the 164-foot-high arch crudely bundled up.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 17, 2021

Klutsis, from rural Latvia, joined Unovis after the revolution, and would become Europe’s most fearless practitioner of photomontage, pasting pictures of soldiers, sportsmen and Stalin at wildly discordant scales and against high-contrast backgrounds.

From New York Times • Dec. 17, 2020

I cut in a photomontage of the hundreds of shots of prisoners in their cells that Barbara had published on the Bay Guardian's site the day we were released.

From Little Brother by Doctorow, Cory